Why can’t people leave things the way they found them? It seems to be common courtesy if nothing else. My photo today is a case in point. Whoever painted the lines for this parking space, by necessity, had to overlay the manhole cover. It appears that a workman required access to the space underneath said […]
I’ve seen enough sewer caps but the photo below is the first ‘Clean Out’ cap I’ve ever seen. It’s a good thing.
I saw this metal plate on the sidewalk the other day. The oblong cut-out covered a light bulb. I didn’t look closely, but there must have been a reflector or a lens to focus or direct the light to its intended target. I must make a point to go back at night, when it is […]
Another street-level photograph. I caught this manhole cover just as the sun was coming through the trees. The matrix of squares that adorns the central portion of this large round plate made it easier to quickly line up a perfectly centered photo (before I got run over). I like the way the blue reflected light […]
This is the fresh-water version of my sewer picture from the other day (Sewer Askew). In that post I rued the misalignment of the entitled sewer cover with the its surrounding concrete in which it was mounted. Today I saw this water line access cap. As with the sewer cap title, it is also not […]
Among the objects I seek out when walking are manhole covers and other iron plates that cover accessways to public utilities. I’ve encountered many interesting sewer covers, manhole covers, grates, etc. I don’t know what the plate below was protecting, but I do know who made it. I love the lettering that identifies the foundry.
Apparently, the people who have a penchant for order (i.e., centering things, arranging dollar bills to face the same way or, putting them in sequence of serial number (or Federal Reserve Bank from which they originated)), were not on duty when this sewer cap was installed. When I took the photo, I squared up the […]
Here is a storm drain cover I had to defy traffic to photograph. It was only parking lot traffic, so it was no big deal.
Update to Partial Eclipse, Manhole Edition: I blasted off a couple of shots of these utility covers, while on a walk with family. In this photograph, I wasn’t quick enough. The two images as a sequence shows that one shot is not always enough. Take many pictures, film (I mean digital storage) is cheap.
Before I realized the solar eclipse was coming, I came across these two manhole covers. Actually, they are probably only circular utility service covers. I liked the way they looked, but I was walking with a group of people and only had a hot second to get the shot. I probably couldn’t have gotten both […]
